Description:
The Domain Architect is a senior technology leader position, the successful candidate will set direction for the enterprise networks and telecoms solutions and influence direction on security, tooling and strategy. They will ensure we have the right technologies, capabilities, and architectures to connect, support and secure the enterprise into the future.
This position will have responsibility for leading a team of solution architects with diverse skillsets. The team will be responsible for contributing to the advancement of technologies and capabilities at Irish Life and Canada Life and for ensuring the continuous improvement of Information Systems methods, tools, techniques, and the delivery of service to the business.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- You will work closely with the other architects and leaders across the enterprise to define technology direction, strategies and roadmaps.
- You will ensure that strategies are in place which align with business and other IS strategies including the wider European Technology Strategy.
- You will manage a team of architects working on a diverse project portfolio. Define goals and objectives, meet regularly, provide direction and guidance, review project allocations
- You will mentor other staff and assist in succession planning activities
- You will represent your Domain at Technical Design Authority
- Provide governance and oversight to project/programmes
- Provide consultancy services to the enterprise
- Lead technology RFPs
- Business case development
- Vendor management
- Stakeholder management
- Technology Due diligence exercises for M&A Activities
- You will maintain strong partnership with IT leaders and practitioners across the enterprise
- Ensure technology deliveries align to strategies and standards
The Person
The ideal candidate will have the following knowledge, experience and skills:
- 10+ years of network / security engineering with progressive responsibilities
- A proven track record in working effectively as part of a team within formal project management methodologies and processes
- A leader who knows how to get the best out of a team and ensure that they are set up for success.
- Demonstrate ability to collaborate effectively with staff at all levels and use your influencing skills to drive better business outcomes
- Design experience and have participated as the technical lead in the delivery of infrastructure and software solutions, and be able to reference successful implementations
- Possess professional Cloud, Security & Networking certification.
- Knowledge of industry trends, directions, roadmaps, capability models and frameworks
- The drive and willingness to continuously develop your technical knowledge
- Leadership qualities, and be capable of sound and timely decision making, influencing individuals, and organising and leading teams as required.
- Excellent communications skills with a trac k record in communicating at all levels from Executive to Team level, IS and business stakeholders. Excellent written skills are also essential.
- Broad technical knowledge of a range of Application and Infrastructure disciplines across Storage/Compute/Network for on-prem and experience in working on delivery of Cloud solutions in addition to Cyber Security is an essential.
- Telecoms knowledge and experience would be an advantage.
- Experience in working and driving large scale programs.
- Has a very strong risk security focus.
- Representing Information Security across Technology Services and playing a key role in communicating the technology strategies and road maps.
- Leading complex projects/issues that require in-depth knowledge across multiple technical areas across common enterprise architecture domains